Orangefield’s Huckabay impressed with progress on offense

Orangefield football coach Brian Huckabay said Wednesday that the thing he’s been most impressed with during the first week of practice is how quickly his players have picked up the offense.

Huckabay said the Bobcats ran 26 plays, two times each on the first day of practice, about double the amount of plays they ran two years ago. Huckabay attributes that to his team’s experience and familiarity with Orangefield’s run-heavy, Slot-T offense, but said it was still “a little bit of a surprise.”

“I thought it would be rougher than that,” Huckabay said. “It requires a lot of communication from the kids, the offensive linemen especially, and they’re doing that. Probably in my career, this is the longest offensive script that we’ve had for that first week of practices.”

One of those offensive linemen communicating well is senior Sterling Deslatte, who has played multiple positions on the Orangefield line but will be the team’s center this season.

“He understands the offense and he directs traffic up there,” Huckabay said.